Friday, June 8, 2012
A couple runs.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Miwok 100k 05-05-2012
This video is of the 2012 Miwok 100k. The video was shot by my ultrarunning buddy Kyle Cirrincione.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
American River Run 50 Miler 04-07-2012
This is the video of the American River Run. This was my third year in a row doing the race.
Monday, April 30, 2012
I only planned on doing 4 miles today
Ran 11 miles in the hot afternoon heat today. I didn't plan on doing this today, i just randomly had free time in my schedule.
Then I went home and got cleaned up.
Ran to sequoia brewery from my house (4 miles) to do the 4 mile pub run that Sierra Running Company puts on at the end of every month. I usually don't go because I go to my Jiu-Jitsu class every Monday night, but I skipped Jiu-Jitsu tonight for the run since it's Kyle's birthday today.
After the run I ran to LA Boxing to teach a class. After class I ran home.
I got in a good 23 miles today. Not bad since I only originally planned on doing 4 miles when I woke up today.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
how it all started (my first race)
I wasn’t always a runner. My sister Kathy, she was the runner in the family. Then one day back in 2005, I found myself toeing the line at our local 5k turkey trot on Thanksgiving day. I had been suckered into getting up early and running a race. Why was I doing this? Well, I guess I was out there running a race with my runner sister because I had ran my mouth a little too much… and a long story short, she bet me she could beat me at 5k race.
I didn’t really train for the race, but I was in pretty good shape. I trained in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu 5 days a week, sometimes twice a day. I was in very good shape when it came to my cardio, and I ran a mile or two here and there. I wasn’t into running at this time of my life. Running was hard, and a chore. I didn’t enjoy it, and it was far from being fun and how I wanted to spend my free time.
So.. Here I am, up early on a Thanksgiving morning, getting ready to run my first race. My only goal was to beat my sister, and that was my only goal.
I remember the race starting and I took off, not knowing how hilly and hard the course was that we were running on. I kept looking over my shoulder to check if Kathy was behind me. I pulled away from her pretty good within the first mile. The air was cold and my lungs were burning, I wanted the race to be over fast. I was not enjoying myself. Somehow I managed to finish ahead of my sister.
Kathy wasn’t happy at the end of the race. She’s the runner, she’s ran multiple marathons, half marathons, and other distances. Somehow I managed to dig deep and finish ahead of her. She crossed the finish line and walked right up to me. There was no hug, no congratulations, she just said one thing to me before walking off very angrily. She said, “We’re running the Fresno Half-Marathon next year!!! Good luck!!”
This wasn’t good. I didn’t even know how far a half marathon was back then. I asked one of the guys I trained Jiu-Jitsu with, who was a runner, what the distance of a half marathon was. When he told me 13.1 miles I wanted to die. How the hell am I going to run that far? How do you train for one of these things?
I couldn’t believe this was happening. How do you run 13.1 miles and survive? The distance sounded suicidal. Could my body even handle that kind of mileage? So many questions started rolling through my head…
until next time… keep running!!!!
I didn’t really train for the race, but I was in pretty good shape. I trained in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu 5 days a week, sometimes twice a day. I was in very good shape when it came to my cardio, and I ran a mile or two here and there. I wasn’t into running at this time of my life. Running was hard, and a chore. I didn’t enjoy it, and it was far from being fun and how I wanted to spend my free time.
So.. Here I am, up early on a Thanksgiving morning, getting ready to run my first race. My only goal was to beat my sister, and that was my only goal.
I remember the race starting and I took off, not knowing how hilly and hard the course was that we were running on. I kept looking over my shoulder to check if Kathy was behind me. I pulled away from her pretty good within the first mile. The air was cold and my lungs were burning, I wanted the race to be over fast. I was not enjoying myself. Somehow I managed to finish ahead of my sister.
Kathy wasn’t happy at the end of the race. She’s the runner, she’s ran multiple marathons, half marathons, and other distances. Somehow I managed to dig deep and finish ahead of her. She crossed the finish line and walked right up to me. There was no hug, no congratulations, she just said one thing to me before walking off very angrily. She said, “We’re running the Fresno Half-Marathon next year!!! Good luck!!”
This wasn’t good. I didn’t even know how far a half marathon was back then. I asked one of the guys I trained Jiu-Jitsu with, who was a runner, what the distance of a half marathon was. When he told me 13.1 miles I wanted to die. How the hell am I going to run that far? How do you train for one of these things?
I couldn’t believe this was happening. How do you run 13.1 miles and survive? The distance sounded suicidal. Could my body even handle that kind of mileage? So many questions started rolling through my head…
until next time… keep running!!!!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Sub 18
I've accomplished many things in the short time I've been running ultras. In my first two years of running ultras I ran four 100 mile races, five 50 mile races, twelve 50k races, a few road marathons, and even had to take 2 months off for a stress fracture. Within my first year of running ultras I ran and finished 16 events, and that doesn't count road marathons.
I've been running a lot of ultras ever since my first one on February 6th of 2010. I love running ultras, and I've accomplished a lot in the short time I've been running them... but there's one goal I've been chasing for the last 3 years that keeps getting away from me.
What's that goal? It's a short one... My goal is to run a sub 18 min 5k. That's right, the guy that has been on an ultra marathon rampage just wants to run a really good 5k (3.1 mile) race. So far my 5k PR is 19:01. I need to shave over a full minute off of my best time. I really hope 2012 will be the year I can do this.
After I accomplish this goal, I will go for the other goal I haven't reached yet... running a half marathon in under 1 hour and 30 minutes.
As much as I love running trail ultras, and being out on the trails running for hours at a time, I also still have a love for really fast paced short races. It's also nice to run a race and be done before lunch time.
until next time... keep running!!!!
I've been running a lot of ultras ever since my first one on February 6th of 2010. I love running ultras, and I've accomplished a lot in the short time I've been running them... but there's one goal I've been chasing for the last 3 years that keeps getting away from me.
What's that goal? It's a short one... My goal is to run a sub 18 min 5k. That's right, the guy that has been on an ultra marathon rampage just wants to run a really good 5k (3.1 mile) race. So far my 5k PR is 19:01. I need to shave over a full minute off of my best time. I really hope 2012 will be the year I can do this.
After I accomplish this goal, I will go for the other goal I haven't reached yet... running a half marathon in under 1 hour and 30 minutes.
As much as I love running trail ultras, and being out on the trails running for hours at a time, I also still have a love for really fast paced short races. It's also nice to run a race and be done before lunch time.
until next time... keep running!!!!
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